I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it. Banksy More Quotes by Banksy More Quotes From Banksy It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it. Banksy artist successful needs If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie. Banksy lying people art The people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit... the people who truly deface our neighborhoods are the companies that scrawl giant slogans across buildings and buses trying to make us feel inadequate unless we buy their stuff.... any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours, it belongs to you ,, its yours to take, rearrange and re use.Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. Banksy rocks running thinking When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires. Banksy tourists cabinets art People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army. Banksy army military country The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little. Banksy creativity hate art Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place. Banksy graffiti people art The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal. Banksy great-art stealing artist Nobody knows what you feel inside unless you tell them. Banksy nobody-knows knows feels Live as a villain, die as a hero Banksy villain dies hero Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it. Banksy inspiring inspirational life All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw? Banksy draws artist suffering I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough. Banksy graffiti trying world All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars Banksy graffiti levels war The human race is the most stupid and unfair kind of race. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side. It's not surprising a lot of people have given up compeating altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk and shout abuse. What the human race needs is a lot more streakers. Banksy sneakers stupid drinking There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. Banksy revenge sex art The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it. Banksy holy-grail people art A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey. Banksy surveys males found I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me. Banksy sleep night people If Michaelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci were alive today they’d be making Avatar, not painting a chapel. Banksy painting live-for-today alive